The Bass Book: A Complete Illustrated History of Bass Guitars

by Tony Bacon and Barry Moorhouse

Book Overview

In California in the early '50s, the Fender company introduced the world's first electric bass guitar. They couldn't have known known it then, but the Precision Bass would start a revolution in the sound of popular music. This book explains how that revolution happened and how its reverberations are still felt today. The two-guitars-bass-and-drums lineup that would define pop music found its heart with the Fender bass. In the coming decades, the bass...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1495001504
• ISBN13: 9781495001505
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Backbeat Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"